I’m quite the arachnaphobe, so I’m not sure what I was thinking when I helped Hayley make this fairly creepy spider craft. We had done some Halloween paper crafts (pumpkin, cat, ghost) and I was inspired, but this thing really freaks me out.
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It took almost no time or effort. It’s one ankle height nylon trimmed to size and knotted at one end, with two styrofoam balls inside for the body shape (though you could just stuff it with tissue paper whatever). Then we wrapped black and purple pipe cleaners around the middle for the legs, dabbed a bit of silvery-grey nail polish on for eyes, and attached a piece of thread to the knotted end for a bit of spider web.
Yuck.
Seriously – where did you learn all this stuff???!
That is so cool! My boys would love to make something like that.
What a Martha Stewart you are!
Plum, part of it is just looking around online for ideas, part of it is inspiration striking out of necessity because I often hear “Mommy, can we do crafts?” The spider was a sudden inspiration. 🙂
I also have genetics on my side – my mom did a lot of crafts with me when I was a kid.
And you can make ity bitty little babies with a big black pompom and three pipecleaners for legs… *evil grin*
Eeek!!! I hate spiders
(fellow arachnaphobe)
New to your site! I, too, hate spiders and it’s freaking me out that the houses in our neighborhood have these huge spiders on their porches!